At a Glance

Matt's Groups (2)

experience

Professor

Oregon State University, August 2013 to Present, Corvallis, Oregon United States
(Academia)
Research in design automation, computational geometry, design theory, and numerical optimization. Teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in mechanical engineering.

Associate Professor

University of Texas at Austin, September 2005 to August 2013

Research in design automation, comptutational geometry, design theory, and numerical optimization. Teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in mechanical engineering.

Assistant Professor

University of Texas at Austin, September 2000 to August 2005

Research in design automation, comptutational geometry, design theory, and numerical optimization. Teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in mechanical engineering.

Research Assistant

Carnegie Mellon University, September 1996 to July 2000

Department of Mechanical Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University.
Created and implemented a new methodology for automated conceptual design known as A-Design. By combining aspects of multi-agent systems with multi-objective design selection and optimization, the A-Design system has the ability to adapt to changing preferences imposed by a human designer. Currently, A-Design has been applied to electromechanical configuration design of weighing machines and MEMS accelerometers.

through CAD/CAM API's, and models built on traditional manufacturing equations and tables, the end-to-end manufacturing of parts can be simulated. the granularity of these simulations allows for the tracking of time and cost, typically the most important manufacturing parameters

A method for automating the design of gear trains comprised of simple, compound, bevel and worm is described. The search process combines topological changes, discrete variable choices and continuous variable optimization. By combing best-first search, implicit enumeration, automated optimization invocation and gradient-based optimization, a near guarantee of the optimal solution can be made.

Automating the Conceptual Design Process: From Blackbox to Component Selection
Published by (Third International Conference On Design Computing And Cognition)
Authors: Matt Campbell, Albert Swantner, Tolga Kurtoglu. Published January 01, 2008

Conceptual design is a vital part of the design process during which designers first envision new ideas and then synthesize them into physical configurations that meet certain design specifications. In this research, a suite of computational tools is developed that assists the designers in performing this nontrivial task of navigating the design space for creating conceptual design solutions.